This Ray Camden blog post may help:
http://www.raymondcamden.com/2014/05/22/Important-note-about-ColdFusion-11-and-CFHTTP
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Hi all,
I'm working with
Have you tried creating a batch file, then running CFExecute on that?
hth,
larry
I've searched and found a dozen ways to run a command line application
via
ColdFusion, none of which seem to work. Can anyone show me the right
way?
I want to run a program called ffmpeg.exe from the
You might also try saving the output as CSV and opening it in excel that way.
Its an annoying workaround but may work.
AS for CF8, ask about Railo then - its FOSS, and is faster than ACF.
So what is the specific error? Is it in CF or Excel. If Excel are
you getting this message?
Excel
So what is the specific error? Is it in CF or Excel. If Excel are you getting
this message?
The file you are trying to open, '[filename]', is in a different format than
specified by the file extension. Verify that the file is not corrupted and is
from a trusted source before opening the file.
Sorry Mike, you've lost me. Which of my post is a spam?
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Mike D
Hello Rob and everyone,
Image captchas are undetectable by screen reading packages such as those
used by the blind and lock out legitimate visitors.
Very true, that's why from a 508 or WAI perspective Captchas cannot be made
accessible. One alternative would be to create a random
Mike D.
Please remove this post, its spam.
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That may have been the case at one time. HOWEVER with HTML 5 and such jQuery
plugins as jQuery.Validate, even that argument in favour of CFFORM is no longer
valid. With HTML 5 (assuming that the client browser can handle it) even
required fields are much easier to do than with CF now. About
How can i immplement an autosuggest feature for coldfusion 5 ?
first off I'd look at upgrading to a more recent version of CF, or use Railo.
If you cannot do that you can use jQuery, and jQuery UI. This blog posting
should give you a start.
Adam, if you're that down on CF why are you still using it? Or for that matter
posting to a CF list?
This is a traditionally unpopular metric with CF developers, but there's
this:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Java's more prevalent than .NET platform
Open BD stagnant? You have to be joking. It has a very active google groups
mailing list, and OBD is actively developed - up to v. 3X now with some very
unique features. While opinions are fine, please don't mask opinions as fact
Adam.
I can't vouch for New Atlanta itself, but BD.NET has not
How do you restore a deleted log? In an attempt to clear the exception log,
I ended up deleting it (they should label those buttons better).help!
[insert Delorean time machine joke here]
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
http://training.figleaf.com/
Fig Leaf
Truly, the manager of this list is a lesson in the bad CF programmers
you hear about who give us all a bad name.
No he is not. He is currently recovering from surgery. And is it too difficult
to use the delete key until Mike can get out of his hospital bed and instantly
accommodate your
so im just going to start being a smart ass until i'm unsubscribed
after months of effort to get off this list.
start being a smart ass? from this behavior that was started long ago.
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Doubtful, reading about the exploit, this has an impact on client side Java,
similar to the old client side Java applets that were in earlier versions of
Coldfusion.
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Hi! Quick poll: I'd like to install a lite, free, CFML editor onto a
computer (not my main computer) where the editor is suitable for me to use
my iPad to RDC to the computer and edit existing code.
Suggestions?
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For the iPad, I'd suggest Textastic, it
Greetings all,
I hope you don't mind the slightly off topic posting.
Come and Join Us this Thursday January 17, 2013 at 7PM (MG 6:30-7) at the Fed
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You don't necessarily have to turn it off. Just select dockable.cfm - that I
believe allows you to have debugging on while using Ajax.
That said, I've found it much better simply to use the firebug and web tools
plugins in either FF or Chrome to debug Ajax requests.
This is a great move and
John,
display:none means that the the tag in question will not appear on the page at
all (although you can still interact with it through the dom). There will be no
space allocated for it between the other tags.
Visibility:hidden means that unlike display:none, the tag is not visible, but
A new CF security issue was just discovered a few days ago. You may want to
forward this information to whomever is your CF Admin.
http://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2013/1/2/serious_security_threat
To make a very long story short, the exploit allows a hacker to upload a file
is
When i upgraded, I just ran a complete backup on the 2005 db's and then did a
restore to the 2012 db. Worked like a charm, no issues at all.
regards,
larry
Sorry for asking an OT question, but I've been asking around Microsoft (at
least 10 different people in MS Support, and in Partner
I teach web design and web programming at a public high school. I have
been using homesite for my classes, but it doesn't play well in our
environment (locked down C drive, network drives...trust me, it has
issues). Are there any current text editors that play well with HTML, CSS,
JavaScript,
You may want to check the data type, when whomever updated the database may
have defaulted the suite column to varchar or other text.
This simple query works fine on MS 2005 database but fails on an MS
2008 server:
1. First test:
select suite from house_final_drawings where suite in
why not just setup separate sites and set each site to use the
appropriate
cf version instead of keep switching one site between different home
directories and cf version ?
It's my understanding that the IIS can only do one site (I'm in XP).
To do more, I have to buy the IIS Server.
include a file that includes the file you're including.
CF_Inception!
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Short question, is this a CF custom tag or a CFX type tag.
Custom tags don't have to be installed as others have said, to add to the prior
comments, you can also use cfmodule and specify the exact path to the file as
in
cfmodule name = Name of the Tag template = /path/to/custom/tag etc. /
I'm trying to decide which CF-friendly iPad code editor to get. So far,
its a toss-up between Koder Code, Textastic, and Gusto. Anyone got
some experience in using any of these apps and if so, have some nice
or not-so-nice things to comment? Also your wish list features if
those are
here's the link to the tomcat based installers for Railo and OBD. Both of these
install on IIS. More information here:
http://www.viviotech.net/company/installers.cfm
but I've installed the OBD one on several servers and found no problems. One of
the easiest installs I've done.
hth,
larry
Is that Jason Dean format?
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Larry Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote:
My iPad has a completely different idea of my typing. (Its becoming typecast
actually)
I meant to say you may want to try the jquery google maps plugin. It accepts
json.
http
Is there a current state of the art for dealing with Google maps and
coldfusion, especially asynchronously. I've used cf_googlemap
extensively in the past, but has anything eclipsed it?
You could try the google maps jQuert plugin. One of the options is accepting
Jason input.
Bookmarked already Peter. It looks very nice. A couple of comments though. I
looked at a random set of tags and one thing that made things a bit difficult
what the lack of differentiation in the attributes tables. How about adding
some striping there if possible, or at least use a border.
make sure the java class files are loaded by CF, stick them in the lib
folder for example then restart cf, then check in the cf info page in
the cfadmin and see if they loaded, then you will be able to call the
functions using CreateObject(java) just as u would any of the built in
java functions.
Its only about $40K a year,assuming 2000 hours a year at $20/hr. That doesn't
include benefits etc. Sorry but $40K a year just doesn't cut it.
Not to mention that $20 an hour is still a pretty damn good wage
comparitively. Better than making $6.50 flipping burgers at McDonalds.
andy
Not to
Morality.
Ethics you mean.
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Or you can just do
Can we use Request scope in this type of situations?
Request is available to all templates within the request scope but it does not
persist. If you want the variable to persist, use the session scope. However
remember to use an exclusive lock when setting the variable.
And you can install Apache Subversion on a system without Apache installed?
I definitely wanted to use TortoiseCVS so I was happy to see a TortoiseSVN
If you want an all in 1 SVN server without having to install extras on your
server, Visual SVN is very good, and runs on windows,
I really can't get used to 1 mouse button, does my head in :-)
Any 2 or 3 button mouse will work with a mac and right clicks actually work ;)
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If you're not adverse to using a small company, iBuyPower makes some very nice
desktop and laptop gaming systems, http://www.ibuypower.com/. I picked up one
of their laptops 2 years ago and I've been very satisfied with it.
My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard
Oh drat, I got so caught up in typing up my reply that I forgot to
thank you for taking the time to offer a suggestion. I really did
mean to write that first.
-Patti
N/P. it was only a small suggestion.
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try ctl-T,M for comments. There should be a popup with most of the CTL-T keys
when you hit that key combo.
hth,
larry
Finally giving CFB2 a try (plugin mode). I'm trying to reestablish my
keyboard mappings under Preferences ColdFusion Profile Keys and
running into a problem where
Off the top of my head, do you have a mapping to the /CFIDE/scripts directory,
or is it accessible to the browser? It may be that CF is not finding the
scripts it needs to run cfgrid.
hth,
larry
Running ColdFusion Server Standard 9,0,0,251028 and using CFGRID for
the first time in years.
use www.mailchimp.com
it will handle bounces for you automatically as well as lots of other cool
stuff.
+100 on mailchimp. Its really optimized for this.
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I wouldn't use string concatenation, that's very slow. Rather I'd use
cfsavecontent surrounding the outermost loop and then write those results to
file once rather than with each iteration of the lop. FileIO can be the slowest
part of this whole thing.
Just with those two changes you should
Well the shy can of course be a personal decision.
For me I check out alternatives to give my clients the best possible
service and so I know what is availablebut they...that's me ;-)
it was also the ability to have a complete web app running onboard
fishing vessels disconnectedwith
I'm fully expecting to be shot down here, but couldn't you use the cf
encryption, then grab the compiled jars?
regards,
larry
Akos,
It's common enough for me to have seen it a few times. If you are
expected to work with the site you will need the unecrypted files OR
you will need to
If I remember correctly, you can also cherry pick your final commits in git. So
effectively that's a line by line commit.
With Git and Mercurial, you can shelve changes. So if you are part
way through a big change and something important comes in, you can
tell the source control system to
Another good diff tool is WinMerge (http://www.winmerge.org) its a free diff
and merge tool.
I use Beyonf Compare for stuff like this and I have to say I probably
couldn't live without this tool now, it is s useful.
You can compare files locally, or even an FTP connection and deploy changes
+100 for mailchimp. Its very good at what it does, very flexible and most
importantly very flexible. I've used it to manage email campaigns that have
gone out to 10,000+ recipients. There's also a pretty sweet CFC wrapper for the
MailChimp API, http://mailchimp.riaforge.org/
hth,
larry
You
Rex,
Ahah, I see what you are doing -- very interesting approach. I have
not used cfsavecontent before. I will have to test this and see how
much faster it is.
Thanks much.
Julie,
You'll find it much faster than string concatenation.
Hey everyone. I have been tasked recently with coming up with an automated
deployment/file replication system for our newly built infrastructure. We
have a hardware load balancer that spreads the traffic over 5 real servers.
We are looking for a way to place the production web files and assets on
Here' one way of getting the information
cfset properties = createObject(java, java.lang.System).properties /
cfset vmName = properties[java.vm.name] /
cfset request.cfdumpinited = false /
cfdump label=properties expand=true var=#vmName#/
cfabort /
the first cfset returns the properties. then
Hi All,
We're in a mixed CF and .Net shop. The Powers-That-Be have decided to go with
MS Team Foundation Server for our versioning and revision control system. I've
never worked with TFS and was wondering how difficult or easy it is to work
with it, given that we really do not use Visual
Thanks John, but at $300 per seat, that's painful. I'm hoping for something as
simple as TortoiseSVN for example.
I've never used it but hopefully this will solve the CFB part of the
issue...? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg413285.aspx
FWIW, the other Eclipse based IDE for CF, CFEclipse runs on Linux.
On the Dev UI discussion...I have a related question... Does the CFBuilder
Plugin work on Eclipse on a linux box? I can understand the standalone
being a windows only thing as they put the package together using the
Windows
Just to be clear, when folks say UI development, also think jQuery
development. I know there are quite a few CF folks doing jQuery work
as well. Until you try writing jQuery with DW you don't know what you
are missing. Seriously. Or to be clear - JavaScript editing in general
is -far- superior in
From what I see, the SVN client version in DW is 1.6.9. Not sure what
that means for your SVN servers. To be honest, I ind SVN buddy in
Eclipse as well so this wouldn't be a deal breaker for me.
While DW does have an SVN integration, I've never been able to get it to work
adequately. I either
After punching all that data in I was walking to the
card reader with them in one huge stack and I tripped...
I've heard a similar story a few times, and I don't get it.
If I had a large stack of cards, especially one that had to stay
ordered, I'd get a piece of string and make a
Not old just started early. And that cheap university didn't want to update the
PDP system for the psych department.
That said, you may want to check out Ray Camden's blog. He has a lot of entries
on developing for mobile apps. See
http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/Mobile
Also Ben
I am personally coding by rubbing a tiny magnet across my hard-drive, moving
the bits. I should state that this is TRS 80, and my hard-drive is actually
a cassette tape.
My code is VERY precise. Just saying.
Mark Drew
My first coding job was putting patch cords on a panel to control an ancient
Ditto. Did my senior thesis in college, a trigometric theorem prover,
using 9000+ key punch cards.
IDE of choice now is still Dreamweaver, although I use Eclipse and
Visual Studio for Java and .NET projects.
In second year when I was taking Advanced Design and Data Analysis, I did a
study
Glad I'm not the only one who still prefers it over the newer stuff :)
I use it everyday.
I try other applications, but I always come back.
J
Let me guess, you also use flint knives and wear fur underwear, and use DOS 3
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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Rick Root rick.r...@gmail.com wrote:
I just finished a project that used CFFTP to go to a SFTP server, download any
new xml files, then read and process them then insert the results in to a db.
It was very easy to set up, no fancy
ALWAYS SCOPE!
Quite I've been struggling with a site for a side job and no scoping
whatsoever. I'd love to discuss this with the original developer. Although the
site is such a kludge I suspect that now this person is a CF hater now.
JQuery... that's all you need
Thank you for the suggestion. Any good tutorials on using CF with
jQuery that you are aware of? thanks
Ray Camden's site has a bunch of excellent tutorials. You also may want to
check jQuery.com - they list some there as well. But as a starter:
I have an app that we are upgrading to CF9 from CF 5. We were using
CFX_PCRegEx instead of the built in regex functionality because it was
way faster. It is throwing errors in CF9. The exception.log entry
states...
Something bad happened in CFX_PCRegEx.
Has anyone had any success
If you cannot get any help from Adobe, you may want to consider using one of
the open source CFML engines like Open BlueDragon
(http://www.openbluedragon.org/) or Railo (http://www.getRailo.com).
Unless there is something very weird about your setup, after recreating your
data sources, and
You may want to check out this blog posting by Ben Nadel. He discusses playing
an MP3 over the phone with Coldfusion and a service called Twilio. That setup
may work for you.
http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2148-Playing-An-MP3-Over-The-Phone-With-ColdFusion-And-Twilio.htm
hth,
larry
We are
With jquery, no you can call a .cfm page. You just have to make sure the data
is in the proper format. Here's an example where what's returned is just plain
html:
s/cript
$('.subMenuItem').live('click', function() {
var thelink = $(this);
var theURL = thelink.attr('href');
I forgot to mention that Ray Camden has a good blog post about filling in form
field values with jQuery and Ajax:
http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2010/5/24/Example-of-jQuery-loading-form-fields
hth,
larry
With jquery, no you can call a .cfm page. You just have to make sure
the data
Thanks Mark that's a great tip.
One thing I did find was that if you're using something other Notepad you need
to put in the full path to the text editor, like this:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
regards,
larry
Here's another tip on this
I like Notepad++
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
It's free and has good formatting support and pretty lightweight (the place
I work installs it on all of its non-production servers). I don't know
about CF support, but it's good for both log files and HTML.
There's a CF plugin for notepad++
For MSSQL, it can be simple or complicated:
simple:
1. Run your query in SQL Server Management Studio
2. Highlight the resultset
3. Copy/paste into excel
4. Save as CSV
Even simpler for step 3 and 4,
3. right click and select save as CSV.
I do not monitor the OpenBD lists, so perhaps there is
something going on there that I am unaware of.
Judah,
I've been a subscriber to the Open BlueDragon list on Google groups since it
started. I do not recall any anyone being abusive or very hostile to Adobe on
it at any time. Mind you I'm
Here's my contribution to the issue.
First off CF Builder is very good. I've been using CFEclipse since it first
started, mainly as a plugin with MyEclipse which has some very nice add ons and
much more detailed server controls than CFBuilder.
One thing to note is that CFBuilder is built
You're right man. Builder doesn't run anywhere. Seriously. All of us
using it are just pretending and are manipulating code with the raw
power of our big heads.
There's a hands-free typing joke in there somewhere.
Given it was Ray's comment:
Use the Force Ray.
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Larry Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com
wrote:
That said I've also started using CFBuilder more. However I do have
some concerns. As I noted CFBuilder is based on Aptana Studio. With
the recent announcement that Aptana has been acquired by Appcelerator,
how
I've had a lot of good experience with CFDynamics. They're not the cheapest,
but they're pretty reasonable. The tech support is first rate however, with the
techs actually knowing CF.
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. It failed from a lack of contribution from Railo
and OpenBD. The only thing I'm guilty of was being honest with community.
-Adam
On Jan 21, 2011 2:30 AM, Larry Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote:
Excuse me who has been very hostile to the open source community, for
instance your recent comment
Excuse me who has been very hostile to the open source community, for instance
your recent comment on CFEclipse is a very good example. Or your comments about
Open BlueDragon when it first started for another.
And you cannot say its a defensive matter on your part. So when you start that
What CF Conference this August?
Donna, did you ever attend CFUnited (the flagship ColdFusion conference
located in the DC area)? You might also be happy to know that there will
likely be a new ColdFusion conference in the DC area this August.
-Adam
Ex-government contractor
Long-time DC metro
Your numbers are somewhat deceptive. You also need to look at the locations,
and the median salary by location. You'll find that CF developer salaries are
higher than many of the other web based languages.
That said, why does this sort of troll occur on a regular basis?
Wow. Whether you
Hey folks, I'm looking for a tool that can convert JPG, GIF, and other
images to true .ICO files.
We currently use cfx_imagecr3 for most of our image conversion (it
works better than cfimage) but neither actually support writing of ICO
files.
Rick
Rick,
Irfanview is a very nice standalone app
I'd use CF's underlying java core in this case, as in:
cfset theList =
thislocation/thisdir/thissite/thispage.cfm/var1/var2/var3/var4
cfset theOtherPart = theList.split(.cfm) /
cfset theLastPart = theOtherPart[2] /
cfset request.cfdumpinited = false /
cfdump label=theOtherPart
Are either of you using a jquery autosuggest plug-in? If so, which
one? How scalable is this? I'd like for it to work like Google's
autosuggest and have several thousand keywords in a db table to match
against. Thanks.
The jQueryUI autosuggest works very well. Also this blog posting
Are either of you using a jquery autosuggest plug-in? If so, which
one? How scalable is this? I'd like for it to work like Google's
autosuggest and have several thousand keywords in a db table to match
against. Thanks.
The jQueryUI autosuggest works very well. Also this blog posting
You do know that Aptana is incorporated into CFBuilder. That would give you all
the CF features missing from Aptana. (although the combo of CFEclipse and
Aptana gives you many of CFBuilder's features).
I never did. I have always used and loved homesite (CFStudio) and was
horrified when I had
I ran a variant of John's code using the rand function for the string length
and got fairly similar results as before.
It may well depend on the size and number of the strings, since the
main inefficiencies can be piling up of immutable strings and
subsequent GC. And like they say, there's
Yes, cfsavecontent appears to use a java buffer internally, and runs
just about as fast. Pick whichever method gives you code you like
better with your content, its source, and your coding style.
Dave
Its actually faster according to the tests I've seen. Both ArrayAppend and
cfsaveContent
At the risk of Michael D getting ticked off at us I'll at to the OT. Why not
post his info to CF-Jobs?
regards,
larry
Really sorry about the Off Topic, but I guess some of you will be
dealing with this.
A good friend and ex coleague of mine is moving to LA this week and I
know he is
Unless you're testing this under a significant load, such as using jMeter etc.,
this test is essentially meaningless. Loops over thousands or simple page loads
do not mean anything. I'd look at a more real world test, make sure the HTML is
exactly the same, structure the code to be similar
Look at the DeMoronize function on CF-Lib.org It does a pretty good job of
removing most Word related crud.
http://www.cflib.org/index.cfm?event=page.udfbyidudfid=725
Also you can use the replace function to replace the windows carriage returns
and line feeds with a br /
However it may be
+1,000,000 for Jame's theory about string concatenation. CF is very
inefficient at this. Doesn't amtter much for small stuff and a few
repeats, but for bulk, a Java buffer is the way to go.
Dave
String concatenation is quite slow in CF. This blog did some fairly simple
tests and found that
You can use my new Similarity Algorithm based on WikipediA (SAWA):
http://tinyurl.com/sawa-filannino
Try it and say me what do you think!
I'd love to try it but got 404'd.
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nope! :)
Oh CF, is there anything you can't do?
what about make coffee, and bring my slippers and the morning paper. If it
could do that CF would truly rock.
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Unfortunately nothing there.
That said, I kind of figured out a way to do it. The lego NXT MindStorms robot
can be using Java. So you'd just have to build a few classes to handle the
tasks, then call them through CreateObject etc.
But hey it can't be that difficult, given what these high
Greetings,
Pardon for the slightly off topic posting, but I thought I'd try the collective
wisdom of the list here. Anyhow this is a favour I'm doing for a colleague.
He's looking for a Canadian web hosting firm that offer CF as part of the
package. Does anyone have recommendations?
many
Yes but you know dick about poutine, prairie oysters and Winnipeg Shandys.
Actually I may have to go that route. I hope not because that makes my
friend's tax issues a bit more complex.
We are in the US but we speak Canadian eh.
Greetings,
Pardon for the slightly off topic posting, but I
Claude,
what about an external solution. I've found that MailChimp (www.mailchimp.com)
does all what you want, and you don't have to manage it. Moreover there's a CFC
wrapper for their API if you really want to get into working out a coding
solution. Myself I'd rather not reinvent the wheel.
+100 for MailChimp. There's also a pretty nice MailChimp wrapper on ria forge:
http://mailchimp.riaforge.org/
hth,
larry
Try this one.
http://www.cfmagic.com/products/magiclistpro.cfm
when it comes to free/ready made apps PHP is king.
If you are looking for something free then try
Funny you should mention it, but here's a couple of blog posts by Ray Camden
about the same topic:
http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2010/9/8/Example-of-handling-session-time-outs-in-an-Ajax-application
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